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Monday, November 26, 2012

Fresh Ink: Inside Today's Legal

Welcome to your Monday morning round-up of stories in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer. All of the links below will take you directly to today’s stories, or you can head straight over to The Legal’s homepage. (Some stories may require registration or a paid subscription.)

The top story this morning is an internal report of the Philadelphia Traffic Court showing that cases are routinely fixed. As reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes, the report showed that both elected Traffic Court judges and senior judges assigned to the court “routinely entertained and acted upon extrajudicial, ex parte requests for favorable treatment of traffic violators from sources within the Traffic Court and sources external to its operation.”

Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Saranac Hale Spencer writes that William Rullo, who stole nearly $400,000 from the First Judicial District while he worked there as a procurement technician, was sentenced to 33 months in prison.

In more Regional News on Page 3, Jeff Mordock writes that Delaware Governor Jack Markell’s chief of staff, Thomas McGonigle, is set to join Drinker Biddle & Reath next month. He will manage the firm’s Wilmington, Del., office. Also on Page 3, Penn State’s law campuses will be separated into two schools.

As always, our People in the News section is on Page 2, and the top stories from our sister publications across the country make up the Page 4 National News section.

In this week’s Law Technology News page, Judy Selby writes about protecting against the risk of data breaches.

In the Public Interest page, David Lapp writes that charter school reform must protect vulnerable students.

If you have questions or comments about any of today's stories, or our coverage as a whole, we invite you to email any of the reporters directly. We hope you'll enjoy today's Legal.